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samlevy

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    Show HN: Get notified when a Twitter handle becomes available

    This is something I started building a while back and finally launched yesterday after seeing Elon’s tweet about freeing up Twitter handles. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/160…

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    Show HN: A username availability checker to notify you if they become available

    This is something I started building a while back and finally launched today after seeing Elon’s tweet about freeing up Twitter handles. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601124…

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    They also have a GeoJSON visualizer. https://github.com/leaflet-maps-course/resources/blob/33fef0...

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    Hi everyone! I’ve been finding Stripe fees more and more difficult to calculate in my head, so I made a calculator to quickly see the fees for different scenarios. It supports 40 c…

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    I discovered this recently when my housemate complained the WhatsApp iPad app was useless for some basic features that worked on their iPhone. Then we discovered it was not an offi…

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    Comment #7690196

    Leeds United Kingdom, Remote or local, Part-time Stack: Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Backbone.js, Javascript Resume: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/sa…

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    Comment #7552497

    If you don't mind a UK specific API, there is http://postcodes.io . No authentication needed, it uses open data which is a plus, it can be demoed from the home page. It may not be …

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    Comment #6057645

    It is a bit rubbish but not as bad as other APIs I've had to register for (API keys pending review/approval for several days). I just filled in the bare minimum of App name and goo…

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    Comment #6057101

    I've been looking at the CloudMade Geocoding API for a side project and they return good results in the UK. The POI search might also be helpful but I haven't tried it yet. You get…